Antonio Gazzoletti

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Antonio Gazzoletti

Antonio Gazzoletti (born March 20, 1813 in Nago , † August 21, 1866 in Milan ) was an Italian lawyer and poet.

Life

Childhood and youth

Antonio Gazzoletti was born on March 20, 1813 as one of the eight children of Guglielmo Gazzoletti and his wife Silvia Negri di Montenero. He attended the grammar school in Rovereto , where he was noticed by his quick perception. When Antonio was 13 years old, his father died and his mother took care of his education. After only nine years in high school, Gazzoletti was admitted to the Liceo in Trento , where he received a classical education. During those years Gazzoletti developed a passion for literature and theater, which was reflected in his first attempts at writing. In 1830 he and his cousin Giovanni Prati, who was also active as a writer, published a volume of poetry entitled Scelta di poesie edite ed inedite di varj autori tirolesi .

In the same year Gazzoletti moved to Innsbruck , where he began to study law . There Gazzoletti developed a strong aversion to the rigid social behavior of the Austrians, which later manifested itself in a rejection of everything German. After three years in Innsbruck, Gazzoletti returned to his homeland and completed his studies in Padua in 1835 .

Political activity

From 1837 Gazzoletti lived as a lawyer in Trieste, where he took part in the lively cultural life and became acquainted with Niccolò Tommaseo , among others . As a part-time job, Gazzoletti also worked as an editor for the magazine Favilla , published by Anton Madonizza , and got to know Tommaso Gar in the process. Gazzoletti also wrote frequently for the Rivista viennese and the Messaggiere tirolese .

Gazzoletti was actively involved in the revolutions of 1848 and was arrested in Innsbruck on April 23 of that year after a failed uprising. Via Bavaria and Switzerland he finally managed to escape to Lombardy , where he stayed until the armistice and worked on the journal projects Pio IX. and L'Avvenire d'Italia collaborated.

Since Gazzoletti did not give up his revolutionary plans, he was arrested again on May 19, 1848, this time in Padua. After two months of heavy imprisonment , Gazzoletti returned to Trieste, where he began to work intensively on patriotic works that led to his exile from the Austrian Empire in 1856 . Gazzoletti fled to Turin, where he wrote for the magazines L'Indipendente , Rivista contemporanea and Mondo letterario . In 1858 he founded the magazine Buon senso in Turin , which was suspended after a month, which is why Gazzoletti ultimately took over the management of the Patriota .

After the union of Lombardy with Piedmont , Gazzoletti got a job as head of Lombardia , an anti-Austrian newspaper of the provisional government, and moved to Milan. In addition to his articles for Lombardia, he also published some Horace editions there, which were published posthumously in scientific journals.

Gazzoletti died in Milan on August 21, 1866.

Works (selection)

Gazzoletti preferred to cultivate the ballad and based it on Niccolò Tommaseo's translations of Slavic folk songs. He is the author of a patriotic poem entitled Qual 'è la patria dell' Italiano? (What is the Italian's fatherland?), As an allusion to the song What is the German fatherland? by Ernst Moritz Arndt and is described in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon as "well done".

  • Versi (Trieste 1838)
  • Galatti (Trieste 1840)
  • Piccarda del Donati (Trieste 1841)
  • Memorie e fantasie (Trieste 1842)
  • Falco Lovaria (Trieste 1845)
  • Poetry (Trieste 1846)
  • La grotta d'Adelberga, canti tre , in three songs (Trieste 1853);
  • Umberto Biancamano , Legend (Milan 1863) a.
  • Poetry (Affetti e pensieri.- Racconti.- L'ondina d'Adelberga.- Fasti e nefasti.- Paolo.- La poetica d'Orazio.) (Florence 1861)
  • Canzone per la festa secolare di Dante (Brescia 1865)

He composed the tragedy in five acts Paolo, l'apostolo delle genti (Turin 1857, new edition 1873). He also wrote several librettos , a. a. : La schiava greca , Florence 1868, Turanda (music by Antonio Bazzini ), Milan 1867.

literature

  • Mario Allegri:  Gazzoletti, Antonio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52:  Gambacorta-Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999, pp. 779-781.
  • Muzio Majnoni: Antonio Gazzoletti poeta e patriota . Milan 1894.
  • Bruno Emmert: Antonio Gazzoletti (20 March 1813-21 agosto 1866), saggio bibliografico . Trent 1910.
  • Gianpiero Turati: Un poeta dell'Italia sacrificata. Antonio Gazzoletti, 1813 . Turin 1913.
  • Ferdinando Pasini: Antonio Gazzoletti (1813-1866) . Rome 1914.
  • Giuseppe Stefani: Antonio Gazzoletti nella rivoluzione del quarantotto . Trieste 1935.
  • Gioacchino Grasso: Antonio Gazzoletti e la musica . In: Studi goriziani, No. 93-94 (2001), pp. 99-128.

Web links

Commons : Antonio Gazzoletti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Mario Allegri:  Gazzoletti, Antonio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52:  Gambacorta – Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999, p. 779.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Mario Allegri:  Gazzoletti, Antonio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52:  Gambacorta-Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999, p. 780.
  3. ↑ a b c Mario Allegri:  Gazzoletti, Antonio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52:  Gambacorta – Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999, p. 781.
  4. ↑ a b Gazzoletti, Antonio . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 3. Edition. tape 7 : France-Gotthelf. Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1876, p. 455 ( google.at ).
personal data
SURNAME Gazzoletti, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Nago
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1866
Place of death Milan